I will never stop talking about Clive Owen, even if he isn’t in my current Forever Dong rotation. My current rotation is: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon (has anyone else been watching The Following?!?) and Michael Fassbender. It’s been a while since I’ve had a good, dirty fantasy about Clive. It’s been even longer since he wrote me a dirty letter! But even in his absence… Clive could still get it, right? He’s 48 years old, by the way. Aging like a fine wine.

Anyway, these are new photos of Clive at the Paris premiere of his film Shadow Dancer. I believe we had photos of London premiere last year, so I guess this film is coming out in not-so-steady drips. Maybe they’re having distribution problems. Clive looks good, right? He always wears the hell out of a suit, his hair looks decent, and I’m enchanted by his late-in-life sideburns. He still knows how to eye-f—k a camera too.

In other Clive news, he’s no longer going to be doing the long-gestating Sin City sequel/prequel, A Dame To Kill For. At one point, many years ago, Clive was supposed to reprise his role and Angelina Jolie was supposed to play “the dame” Ava Lord. Now Josh Brolin is taking over Clive’s part and Eva Green will be playing “the dame”. Which brings me to something I’ve been meaning to ask about Clive – doesn’t it feel like he’s in a major career slump? I mean, I love him and I’ll still seek out his movies… but I wish he would make better movies. Back in 2005-6, it felt like Clive was going to be the next big leading actor… and then everything kind of petered out for him, career-wise. Come on, Clive!

46 Responses to “Clive Owen is 48 years old & sideburn-y in Paris: could Clive still get it?”

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I used to get hot for Clive, but I don’t think he’s aging well. I suspect, SUSPECT, that he’s really much older than he says he is. And his dyed hair color just clashes with his skin. I think he’d look hotter if he just owned his age and went all silver fox.

+1, I thought he was quite good, but then I’ve never read the book.
Shadow Dancer is *amazing*. Really, really brilliant, I can’t imagine why it’s having distribution problems, but then I guess films about the Troubles don’t have a particularly large market.

Supposedly he turned down Bond because that’s not the career that he wants to have. We may say that his career ‘fizzled’ but he’s probably still making an EXCELLENT living and doing the movies that he wants to do. And all it really takes is for one of those little roles to really get awards traction.

Clive 4Evr. I’m so disappointed his career didn’t take off after Closer and Children of Men. And then of course, there was the movie where he was having sex with his sister, that also stared Alan Rickman. Interesting flick.

And just to add, I love The Following!But I totally lust after James Purefoy.

James Purefoy is YUM! Next to him, Clive Owen looks sad and boring. I agree with an above poster that he’s not ageing very well. Up until about 3 years ago he was the hotness. Now… not so much. And I also think he’s a very mediocre actor. No screen presence at all.

I thought “Close My Eyes” was really good, even if I did want to smack the hell out of the sister. Alan Rickman was fantastic. Not sure if it was the character or the actress, but the sister didn’t help that movie at all. Clive was heartbreaking.

So true! Every time I see an ad for one of his films I wonder what the heck happened to this guys career? He was so a-list for awhile, then suddenly he dropped like a rock.

Ads for some of his recent films have looked really, really third-rate. One I saw a trailer on from a few months ago looked flat-out like some schlocky horror film. He must have ticked off someone very important in Hollywood to have gone off a cliff like that. In his day he was terrific. I think he still looks pretty good. And this guy could act. He wasn’t just a pretty face.

He’s definitely on the hot spectrum, but overall, biscuit tingles don’t happen because a) he is a truly terrible actor (and I don’t get how that isn’t universally accepted as fact), and b) named Clive.

And I’m deeply impressed with the dong rotation. I’ll book them for Tuesdays, please.

On another note is he a bad actor? I always thought Clive was a good actor, have I just been blinded by love? I liked him in Closer, Children of Men and Croupier, although I wasn’t impressed with that mess of a film he did with JenAn, Derailed(?)

Honestly, I find him incredibly monotonous and uninteresting as an actor. I always feel that he gives some kind of variation on the same performance. He’s fine at what he does, but going into a Clive Owen movie, you pretty much know what you’re going to get. He’s got average talent, at best, but I think he’s got away with it because he’s older/British/less traditionally pretty-boy looking.

I’ve realised that aside from the 3 films I listed I’ve only seen him in Sin City and the bits of that awful King Arthur film. I’m starting to think that I was blinded by love, I asked Mr Kiki and he said your assessment was spot on. For the time being he’s still a mild biscuit tingler but I’m going to re watch a few films this weekend and probably come back saying he’s a mediocre at best actor. So I’m annoyed at you in advance for bursting my bubble.

Clive and Vincent were the only good things about that awful Derailed movie. Aniston ruined it with her awful attempts at acting. If they had cast an ‘actually’ sexy/pretty actress who had talent then that movie might have been OK.

I’m so sorry! Although, if you plan on doing a Clive retrospective, I would recommend starting with Inside Man. If your bubble truly has been burst, then you still have Denzel, a slightly “less grizzled” Willem Defoe and Chiwetel Ejiofor as backup.

Or the second Elizabeth movie, which, IMDB has just told me, also Eddie Redmaye (and Geoffrey Rush, who is equally worthy of your adoration, albeit in the non-biscuit tingling sense).

I have a sneaking suspicion that he doesn’t *want* to be a leading man. He talks very highly of his family and their importance in interviews and even at the peak of his fame was slumming contracts for watches and high end liquor (suggesting he was busy making money and not worried about his future “brand”). Lainey talks about his lack of networking chops & disdain for popularity contests in a few of her older articles.

Wow Clive there you are. This boy has been MIA for a minute. I am also surprised at how what looked like a promising career fizzled. I thought he was a good actor. He wasn’t what some would consider handsome but I found his look interesting and I was attracted to him and that voice. He can still get it.
BTW I have The Following DVR’d but haven’t watched yet. Love Bacon and JP

This-is-the-truth minus Purefoy. I still need time to check him out. Fassbender is soooo fn HOT that he knocked of Christian Bale. BALE? I thought that would never happened to me. Still love him but he lost the top slot.